Okay this may not be relatable for a lot of people who do not separate their trash into 4 different bins. But we have a dedicated bin for organic waste, we use it for energy production etc. The supermarkets put these little stickers on their fruit and veggies, they are similarly infuriating as stickers on non organic stuff.
Just leave the stickers on the peels in the organic waste bin. It’s fine.
They do make edible stickers with edible adhesives for produce… They’re usually not that sticky though
When I managed our compost as a kid growing up, we composted the stickers and they would break down faster then egg shells or cofee grounds. But that was 20 years ago and in the US.
You could just cut out the section of peel with the sticker and compost the rest.
Ain’t nobody got for time for that
Huh? Two passes with a knife takes almost no time. Far quicker than trying to remove the sticker.
It is an option to cut it in half, but I need to make a knife dirty, I need to throw the peel into two different bins. It’s not too much work, but I eat a banana every morning in my breakfast before work. It’s annoying, and an easy removable sticker would just save some time.
I mean you dont even have to bother just tear that whole section off
How non-organic are those stickers?
What would happen if you just tossed the peel in organic waste with the sticker on?
They’re non-harmful if you eat them, but they’re also not compostable and need to be removed before being disposed of
Clearly the answer is to eat the sticker.
My rubbish company told me not to throw them into the compost bin; that it’s better to put your peel onto regular rubbish if you can’t get them off.
Yup these non removable stickers make the “complete packaging” regular rubbish by definition. Consider a supermarket/brand which uses removable labels.
I can’t recall running into paper labels on fruit before. Idk where OP lives or maybe I’ve just somehow dodged brands that do this up until now, wtf.
This is Germany
Wow, I expected this from the US, Canada, or the UK.
I thought having clear rules for an efficient society was Germany’s whole thing.
Very common in usa
Plastic coated paper even!
I see them far less often than I used to.
Ireland
I usually shop at Aldi, and their brand comes in plastic bags, with no stickers on the fruit. Still not ideal, but at least it’s easily separable.
Yeah I’had been wondering if the ink and glue in those stickers could be bad for the soil if you threw them in your compost. So as a precaution I throw them in the recycling bin.
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